{"id":62800,"date":"2017-01-10T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62800"},"modified":"2017-01-10T08:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:25:04","slug":"where-was-meryl-streep-when-obama-was-prosecuting-whistleblowers-bombing-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62800","title":{"rendered":"Where was Meryl Streep when Obama was prosecuting whistleblowers &#038; bombing weddings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_62802\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/5874af80c36188a9318b45ce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62802\" class=\"wp-image-62802\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/5874af80c36188a9318b45ce.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/5874af80c36188a9318b45ce.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/5874af80c36188a9318b45ce-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/5874af80c36188a9318b45ce-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award. \u00a9 Paul Drinkwater \/ Courtesy of NBC \/ Reuters<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Okay, first let\u2019s get one thing out of the way: I adore Meryl Streep. Judge all you want, but The Devil Wears Prada is a classic and I won\u2019t apologize for saying it.<\/p>\n<p>Streep\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/news\/golden-globes-2017-meryl-streep-donald-trump-cecil-b-demille-award-a7516686.html\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Trump speech<\/a> on Sunday night at the Golden Globes was a sublime performance. It was delivered with emotion and grace. A real tear-jerker for anyone worried about the oncoming era of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And yet&#8230; it also stank. It reeked, in fact. Of pure, unadulterated hypocrisy. Because Streep, sadly, is that common breed of liberal Hollywood hypocrite. You know, the ones whose bleeding heart credentials are suddenly nowhere to be found when the occupant of the White House is a cool Democrat who\u2019s besties with Beyonce.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/3oz8xt0jWJUBVYgSZ2\" width=\"480\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/goldenglobes-3oz8xt0jWJUBVYgSZ2\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In her impassioned speech, Streep called on her peers and fans to join with her in donating to the Committee to Protect Journalists: <em>\u201cWe need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That&#8217;s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s right, of course. But one wonders is Streep even aware, for instance, that the Obama administration has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/mar\/16\/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning\" target=\"_blank\">prosecuted more whistleblowers<\/a> than all of his predecessors combined? It\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/06\/obamas-gift-to-donald-trump-a-policy-of-cracking-down-on-journalists-and-their-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\">tradition<\/a> Trump is likely to continue, of course, but it\u2019s rather strange that the issue never crossed her mind until now.<\/p>\n<p>And where was Streep \u2014 only suddenly concerned about how <em>\u201cviolence incites violence\u201d<\/em> \u2014 when Obama was helping Saudi Arabia level Yemen,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/aug\/18\/us-promoting-war-crimes-yemen-saudi-bombing-obama\" target=\"_blank\">bombing<\/a> funerals and wedding parties? Or when his <em>\u201chumanitarian intervention\u201d<\/em> in Libya went so disastrously wrong that it turned the country into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2016-03-08\/us-commander-in-africa-says-libya-is-a-failed-state\" target=\"_blank\">failed state<\/a>, allowing the terrorist group ISIS to flourish? Or when the great uniter earned himself the nickname \u2018The Drone King\u2019 as he expanded the US drone program and conducted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/jan\/09\/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy\" target=\"_blank\">ten times more strikes<\/a> than George W. Bush? Also a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2016\/12\/27\/what_will_happen_when_donald_trump\" target=\"_blank\">tradition<\/a> Trump will likely be only too happy to uphold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn&#39;t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/818419002548568064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Where was Streep as the Nobel Peace Prize winner bombed not one, two or three \u2014 but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2016\/8\/31\/glenn_greenwald_obama_has_bombed_7\" target=\"_blank\">seven different countries<\/a>? To be fair to Streep, she probably didn\u2019t notice because the <em>\u201cprincipled press\u201d<\/em> didn\u2019t seem to either. Funny thing about that too, since Streep and her friends are worried about Trump\u2019s apparent disdain for foreigners: All of the countries bombed by the Obama administration were Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<p>And where was Streep when Obama\u2019s administration was negotiating on behalf of Al Qaeda-linked <em>\u201cmoderate\u201d<\/em> rebels in Syria? In fact, where were all the hypocrites in the room, as Obama spent 2016 dropping 26,171 bombs?<\/p>\n<p>Oh that\u2019s right, they were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4097492\/Inside-Obama-s-final-star-studded-party-Bash-goes-2am-Meryl-Streep-Mccartney-SJP-Chance-Rapper-dance-floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">partying in his house<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Look, these people have a right to air their grievances about Trump \u2014 and they should. There are legitimate grievances to air. But when they bury their heads in the sand this deeply, they don\u2019t deserve a round of applause and adulation from the masses. They deserve to be called out and woken up. Their moral outrage is empty and meaningless unless they are consistent in applying it.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump, his easily bruised ego was on display in his response to Streep\u2019s speech when he called her an <em>\u201coverrated\u201d<\/em> actress \u2014 which is unlikely to hurt her feelings the way she apparently hurt his. For him, it might be time to realize he\u2019ll get very little done during the next four years if he responds to every insult and perceived slight on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, many of the outrages that Streep and the Hollywood elite are now up in arms over are not Trump-specific \u2014 and they\u2019re not new. They\u2019re already happening. Hollywood hero Obama has made it even easier for Trump to go after journalists and whistleblowers and to bomb innocents if that\u2019s the path he chooses. Time to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re great at acting Meryl. The best, some say. You could at least pretend to care about that, too.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-edge\/373182-meryl-streep-obama-bombing-golden-globes\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-edge\/373182-meryl-streep-obama-bombing-golden-globes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}